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Time to Focus on Success Stories of India-Bangladesh Relations

The recent controversy over India-Bangladesh relations is a reminder to the Indian planners to review their communication strategy – an area where China excels. Indeed, if good news made headlines, the bilateral relations had some solid achievement....

August 01, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , China , Tripura , West Bengal , Sri Lanka , Railways , container service , Kolkata , Chittagong port , Pyara port , Hasina

The India EU Summit: Belied Expectations

Amb Gurjit Singh Commentary

The 15th India EU Summit was held on 15 July 2020 in virtual mode. The process of Summits was instituted in 2000 and 12 Summits took place annually till 2012. The 13th took 4 years to materialize, in2016, where Italy held back the EU interaction wit....

July 31, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Brexit , COVID-19 , BTIA , China challenge , EU China Strategy , shared values , Connectivity Strategy for Asia

Turkey and Egypt on the Libyan Cross Roads

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Libya’s misfortune refuses to go away. The foreign and interventionist powers continue to back their proteges to sub serve their own regional geo-political and geo-economic interests in the Mediterranean North African nation. Egypt and Turkey are t....

July 31, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Egypt , Libya , Turkey , General Haftar , GNA , Erdogan , Muslim Brotherhood , LNA , President Sisi , Sirte , Hagia Sofia

Sustainability of Federalism in Nepal

Prof Hari Bansh Jha Commentary

Federalism is a system of government that distributes power between the Central government and the regional bodies.¹ Most of the countries in the world have adopted federalism for it helps them in bridging the gap between the government an....

July 30, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Nepal , Federalism , Madhesis , Local Councils , Provincial Assemblies , House of Representatives , Madhes Movements , CPN-Maoist

OLI TURNS HOLY | A POEM

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

In Kathmandu at Singh Darbar Oli sat with his close team, He said he would go very far To realise his long cherished dream. To make sure that Nepalis saw That India was a foreign land, He had made up his mind to draw With his own h....

July 25, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Commentary , Nepal , Ayodhya , Oli , Singh Durbar , Lord Ram , Madhesis , Treaty of Sagauli , Kalapani River , Dharmic , Hou Yanqi

EU’s Operation Irini Promotes a Poor Image of the EU

Rajesh Soami Commentary

The European Union launched operation IRINI in the Mediterranean on 1st of April, 2020. The operation is officially called EUNAVFOR MED Irini where EUNAVFOR stands for European Union Naval Force and MED stands for the Mediterranean Sea. Irini succeed....

July 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Europe , Commentary , Libya , NATO , EU , GNA , Berlin Conference , Haftar , Op Irini , LNA , Mediterranean Sea

हैगिया सोफिया से संबंधित घटनाएं भारत की नैतिक आवाज के लिए आह्वान

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

ऐतिहासिक हैगिया सोफिया संग्रहालय को एक मकबरे के रूप में परिवर्तित करने का टर्की का हाल का फैसल�....

July 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , चीन , टर्की , कमाल अतातुर्क , उईगर , एर्डोंगेन , इस्लामीकरण , यूनेस्को विश्व धरोहर स्थल , मकबरा

Iran’s Nuclear Quest in Recess

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

On July 2, some explosions at the nuclear component facility at Natanz in Iran appear to have damaged the crucial centrifuges delaying its programme by at least two years as per Iranian officials. Earlier, there was yet another blast said to be at th....

July 16, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Israel , China , JCPOA , Saudi Arabia , Cyber Attack , Natanz , Joe Bidden

Happenings Concerning Hagia Sofia Call for India’s Moral Voice

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

Turkey's recent decision to convert the iconic Hagia Sofia museum into a mosque is condemnable. It marks yet another move by Erdogan's Turkey to turn its back on the measures, admired the world over, taken by Kemal Ataturk to turn Turkey into a truly....

July 15, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , China , Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , Uighurs , Erdogan , Islamization , UNESCO World Heritage site , mosque

Where Egypt is Going?

Amb K P Fabian Commentary

Egypt, once the uncontested leader of the Arab world under President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954-70), remains one of the most important countries in the Arab world and in Africa. Obviously, what happens to Egypt is important and a matter of concern to t....

July 10, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Arab Spring , Muslim Brotherhood , President Morsi , Supreme Council of Armed Forces , El Sisi , Deep State